Testimonials

Iron Golf Mind is a great book not only for golfers, for anyone.

This is a perfect book for a dad like me, who wants his son to become a good golfer, but at the same time, a good person as well. I think many fathers choose golf as their children’s sport hoping they will learn something extra from the sport. Your book is just perfect to achieve what I was looking for. I have a 13 years old son and I have been applying what I learned from this book to his golf game. Great news is that he has developed much better attitude both on and off the golf courses!!!

He is definitely more consistent because of his new mind set, “Iron Golf Mind.”

Guaranteed to bring something profound to your golf game regardless of your playing ability

“Peter manages to capture everything that is hard to capture about golf in his clean-cut book “Iron Golf Mind”.  Through a narrative every dedicated amateur or professional golfer can relate to… “we’ve plateaued and we don’t know why”… we’re introduced to conversations between an amateur player and his newly found ideal golf coach, revealing a detailed analysis of how a golfer’s mind works and how we need to reprogram our mind to continually progress our golf.

Cataloging our mental approach to golf into five key characteristics (the 5 Cs) helps us organised our thinking so we do not become overwhelmed by the mayhem our mind can unleash during a round of golf.  We are introduced to some techniques we’ve heard of and tried before, some techniques we’ve heard of but haven’t tried and some techniques we have never heard of. Guaranteed to bring something profound to your golf game regardless of your playing ability.”

3 lessons 5 strokes off my handicap, Peter nailed it from day one! “That’s my results to date after three lessons with Peter. As a keen golfer, over the last 5 years I have tried everything from new equipment to improvement courses and lessons from two other qualified instructors with only minimal results.  After only three sessions with Peter I am achieving some great results with a 3rd and a 4th in my last two competition rounds.  His follow-up instruction Video complete with audio is such a valuable tool loaded on my iPhone when I head to the practice range.  Peter is such a great communicator and I had immediate results under his guidance and instruction.  I have also read Peter’s book Iron Golf Mind and I was the perfect example of the struggling, frustrated golfer featured in the book.  The 5Cs confidence, concentration, composure, commitment and competitiveness exercises have really helped my on course game.  I am applying everything from the book on course and achieving so much more from this game.

I am not surprised Peter is rated amongst Australia’s top coaches.  He obviously knows his technical stuff but does not bombard you with theory.  I suspect he endeavours to help me achieve the best my age, mind and body can produce and recognises this combo varies from day to day.  Most importantly he listens and asks you what’s going on and why the ball is doing what it’s doing.  We both know I over-swing but he rarely mentions it…instead he gets me to focus on simple things that make me more stable and consistent which in turn looks after over swinging!

Peter’s videos covering approximately ten visits over two years show I am gradually acquiring a much better and more sensible golf swing.

I regard Peter as my secret weapon in staying on single figures well into my 70’s.

Highly recommended!

I started seeing Peter mid-way through 2012. I was an amateur playing off 2 and not enjoying the game of golf at all.  I was working hard to improve my golf but found myself stuck playing off 2 for a couple of years. I was in a rut; I felt I would never get any better.

Working with Peter has improved both my swing and my understanding the golf swing. A main focus we have is the short game or the scoring aspects of my game. My scores have improved greatly over the past 4 years. Peter has also assisted with the development of my mental game.  I am now happier and more resilient on the golf course.

I am now a Trainee Golf Professional in my final year.  I am still a long way away from being the player I wish to be. However, I feel confident working with Peter that my game will improve and I will continue to lower my scoring average.

I would like to commend Peter Knight as a worthy person to be named golf coach of the year.

I have been pleased to have had several lessons with Peter and I find him to be a remarkable person. A great coach who has the ability to make you feel you are the only person in the room.

His concepts are very effective and though I have little time to practice his weekly videos keep my brain fine tuned.When I first went to have lessons with Peter my GA hcp dropped down from 10.5 to 6.3 .I was able to devote 4-6 hours a week to his swing drills and instruction back then.

Nowadays I still maintain a single figure playing handicap and refer often to his emails after lessons.

You meet very few people in your life like Peter.

I decided to take up golf 3 years ago as a suitable retirement sport, and bought the equipment and joined a club while I was still working. I started playing in competitions with a handicap of 36 and it slowly came down to 30 but stalled. As usual, everyone offered reasons for my bad shots, but I didn’t know how to correct them.

I chose you (Peter) for 2 reasons: the video aspect (I understand things better when I can see them), and your NLP background (I am a fan of the methods for teaching – I remember techniques by their ‘feel’ more than anything else).

Over an 18-month period and 8 or so lessons, you fixed my stance, grip, rotation, swing plane and weight transfer (and more I can’t think of just now). From your weekly video lessons I fixed my putting grip and stroke.

My handicap went down to 16.  Low handicappers I play with don’t believe my swing is that of a high handicapper. I wouldn’t have that base to build on without your coaching, so thank you.

I have been attending Peter Knight for coaching intermittently for a couple of years.After the first couple of lessons, he set me on the straight and narrow and my handicap dropped from a GA of about 23 to 18.

Twelve months later my club course was re-sloped down from 116 to 104, although handicaps were not adjusted and at the same time I transferred to a club whose slope rating was 138: my GA handicap blew out to 23 (it would have been more if not for the maximum 5 strokes per year).

I was not able to play to handicap and I became increasingly frustrated, so I returned to Peter.

He has really helped me with my swing and although there are still problems, I am feeling a lot more confident and I am enjoying golf more.  My GA handicap has dropped down to 20.

Peter is encouraging and supportive.I look forward to continuing to work with him in the future.

Before seeing Peter I had been playing a lot of golf but unable to break under handicap of 18. I hovered around 20-22. Guys I played with saw me hit 250m drives straight down the middle and thought I had somehow doctored my handicap, however of course they then saw the other side of my game. I was incredibly inconsistent.

My swing came under plane on the takeaway, then I would come over the top on the downswing and usually hit a slice, sometimes a snap hook.

Peter quickly noticed that I was manipulating my wrists, which was causing the problem. I worked long and hard on getting my wrists more neutral and soon was getting consistently closer to being on plane. I’m still not quite there, but my scores have improved considerably.

My last two comp rounds I have hit 10 over and 11 over and I’m not down to 16.9, this is within two months of seeing Peter. The number 1 change to my game has been consistency, and with that confidence.

I was having problems with my golf swing.  I could not get good direction.  Peter has fixed my grip and I now find it much easier to hit straighter and it’s easy to remember his tips.

I also spent a bit of time on chipping and again I find I can get myself back on track by remember his coaching tips.

I did not have a handicap but over summer I have started to enter competitions and have got my handicap down to 33.

The main success I am having from my few lessons with Peter is being able to get my swing or chips or bunker shots back on track by remembering his coaching tips, how the golf club should feel in my hands when I swing, where I should be aiming to hit in a bunker…the list goes on and I have a long way to go but I have definitely improved.

Hi, my name is Alister, I have been playing golf off and on for the past 50 years. At the tender age of 60 I decided I needed a few lessons; the swing was slowing down and very rusty.

There are many choices in Melbourne for golf coaches and I found Peter’s website and decided to give him a go!

I was very impressed with Peter’s professionalism and down to earth approach to help fix my golf swing and inspire me to play better golf.

I had a follow up lesson 6 months later to focus on getting more distance and accuracy off the tee. Peters coaching worked and I would highly recommend him to low and high handicappers for fine tuning or getting the basics right!

I am loving learning to play golf. I like to think about what I do and make the effort to be good at what ever I do.  With Peter I am completely confident that I am learning good habits from an expert and a very enthusiastic engaged teacher.  And I really enjoy Peter’s style – a really elegant analysis of all the complexities of learning golf.

I want to be better and Peter is showing me that I can develop a sound swing and play a nice game if I try. I’m very happy about that.

Peter is giving me confidence in learning to play.  It’s fun and opening a whole new adventure for me   I’m exposed to learning new skills both physical and mental and challenging myself. That is always important.   It’s also about having a new way of spending time with my partner who’s a very good golfer.  Now we have a new wonderful thing to share at home and on holidays. He’s thrilled. So thanks Peter!

“I started seeing Peter Knight as a coach approximately 10 to 12 months ago with the objective of getting direction on how to improve my golf.

My background is that I am 63 and played a lot of competitive golf in the ’70’s and early ’80’s including club and pennant competition.  I was a 4 handicapper at my best.  I was self-taught in the main after a few lessons as a teenager and my swing was “unique” but repetitive and I had a good understanding of it.  It relied on strength and flexibility.

I have played no competitive golf, including club competitions, for about 30 years and as I got older I lost both the strength and flexibility that my swing relied on. I haven’t had a handicap since the early ’80’s and still don’t.

I sought help when I was unable to self diagnose and improve what was a quickly declining golf game and Peter is the third coach I have had over a two year period.

My aim in seeking help was to better understand the golf swing and to have clear instruction in how to develop a methodology that would allow me to play enjoyable golf from now on.  Although I didn’t play competition golf over the last 30 years I have played regularly and my swing was well grooved with all its idiosyncrasies.  Previous teachers offered advice on certain aspects of my golf swing but there was no genuine improvement.  I chose to go to Peter because being older than the other two coaches I had had I thought he would understand the issues you face as you get older.

My golf has improved under Peter.  The changes we are working on are fundamental but the difference in Peter’s teaching to my other teachers is the inclusion of the whole swing in what he is trying to get me to do rather than just one or two elements with no reference to the balance.  What I have gained is a much better understanding of what I do when things go bad and what I need to do to try and correct them.  It’s this general understanding of the golf swing rather than a focus on individual aspects that has helped me.

There is no doubt that my good shots now are much better than they were before I went to Peter but it’s also clear that my poor golf is still ready to pounce due to 30+ years of muscle memory that is heavily ingrained and proving difficult to eliminate.

I’ll continue to use Peter as my coach.  He has given me a framework I understand and he has a manner which is encouraging and (thankfully) non judgmental. He never shows frustration at my inability to implement the changes he is teaching.

I think he understands that having played good golf as a youngster it is both frustrating and difficult to be playing at my current standard and he knows how to encourage and teach someone in that mindset.

I have been around a 100 shot per round golfer for several years of casual play. I had intermittently played and tried to improve my shots at driving ranges and with videos on the Internet.

Peter immediately changed my grip and posture on our first lesson, talked to me about the elbow to hip relationship that I should have at address and in subsequent sessions worked on my hand path and the angle of the club face through my swing to be much more natural and consistent.

I have since shot my two personal best round of 84 and 86, dramatically increased the consistency of my irons and drives.

In 3 lessons with Peter my game has improved by 10 shots on average and am having more fun playing golf than ever before, I am really keen to continue to work with Peter consolidating what I have already learned from him, plus working on my short game and putting with him also.

Before seeing Peter I was not making solid contact with the ball, in particular, the iron shots.   In the past I looked on the Internet for tips and advice.

In the lesson with Peter we worked on trying to strike through the ball and remove a speck of fluff placed in front of the ball.

After my lesson I found I was striking the ball cleaner and I strike the ball a lot more solid.

I find that my game is now more solid and whilst the scores are relatively the same, I am now playing with added confidence. Lower scores will come eventually.

When I came to see Peter for the first time on Friday 4th of December my Australian Handicap was 23.4. He made an assessment of my swing problems and also a plan to overcome those problems. Since then I have had an hourly lesson on 5 occasions.

I am 54 years old and I started playing golf 3 years ago. I had never played before but caught the bug. At the time I saw Peter for the first time my main problems were: tension throughout the  swing with slow club head speed. Short and jerky back and downswing.  Hardly any body pivot – only arm movement. Flight path too shallow.

I had tried a few coaches – some I liked and understood – some I didn’t. My frustration drove me to see a promoter of the “right sided swing” developed and described by Gary Edwin. I tried it for 6 months but I realized this method is not for me.

What I liked about Peter’s approach was that he looked at my whole game and didn’t try to apply a band aid to my problems. He systematically tried to improve my tension, my body movement (pivot), grounding during the swing, wrist movement and swing path.

After every lesson he sent me coaching notes, sometimes with videos and training instructions.  This helped enormously when I went to the range by myself.

I am very happy with the process so far. I had the 3 best rounds during the last 3 weeks – improving from high 90s and hundreds to 91, 93 and 94. Friends have commented on the changes in my swing – it appears to be much smoother and controlled. I have gained at least 20 metres in length and the number of good shots during a round has increased.

We worked systematically and I could see my improvements straight away. My handicap is now 19.9 – under 20 for the first time ever.

I have never enjoyed my golf more than in the last 2 months. I feel progress and and I feel much more confident. I am looking forward to keep on working with Peter – I have a long way to go. I also enjoyed his book – An Iron Golf Mind. I learned so much about the mental side of the game as well as the swing mechanics.

I started working with Peter in August 2015, having met him a few years previously when he was working with the Tasmanian State Team (I was on the Board of Golf Tasmania at the time).  I was very clear that I didn’t just want lessons, but was looking for a coach – a very important and clear distinction in my view.  At the time I was struggling to feel comfortable and, having recently recovered from a serious long term injury, was keen to feel progress towards my former golfing standard.

When I started with Peter I was a 7 handicap but very inconsistent.  I had a long term elbow injury from which I had recovered with specific weights and rehab programs.  Over time, my swing had become flat and I was getting “stuck inside” often, causing either blocks right or snap hooks as I flipped my hands through the hitting area to compensate.  In turn, this placed pressure on other areas of my game.

In just 6 months, I have reduced my handicap from 7 to 3 and have set a goal for 2016 of getting down to 1.  I believe that I am now playing at least as well as I ever have before.  I am a member at the National, where conditions are often challenging, to say the least.

Most importantly, I believe that I have the genuine potential to improve further within this calendar year and beyond and to maintain that level of play over time.

I feel like I have found a coach with whom I can communicate at technical, strategic and psychological levels about the game and about my performance.  Mutual respect is extremely important to me and I look forward to my weekly sessions with Peter.  Most importantly, I am once again thinking about where I’m hitting it and not how (mostly).  And I’m enjoying the game much more as a result.

Peter is a great communicator. He listens attentively, diagnoses the problem and offers solutions that are clear and easy to understand.

Under Peter’s coaching I have a better understanding of why the fundamentals of golf – including grip, set up and posture – are so important.

My practice has become more deliberate and focused because I have a greater appreciation of the importance of getting the basics of the swing right.

Golf is still hard, but I am more confident and relaxed when standing over the ball and more likely to hit a shot I’m happy with.